February 2014 Blog Posts (4)

Admitting that it has lost touch with “its customers and members and with the communities in which it operates”, the Co-op is at a crossroads. After the near collapse of its bank, the Co-op is asking anyone and everyone to help determine the organisation’s future direction.

Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, is examining plans to free local authorities from a 103-year-old obligation to provide plots of public land for cultivation by gardeners. The proposals could see local authorities, many of them strapped for cash under government-imposed cuts, selling off allotment land for social housing or even for profit to major companies.…

Apparently, the government intends selling our medical records to anyone that wants them?

Companies will be able to buy them from the NHS’s new patient database - everything from mental health conditions, sexually transmitted infections and diseases like cancer, linked to your postcode, gender and ethnicity.